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Pre-sales begin for 14 luxury factory-built homes in Hawaii Kai

By Nichole Villegas – Reporter, Pacific Business News | February 24, 2026

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Pre-sales have begun for 14 ultra-luxury homes to be placed on three acres along the eighth hole of the Hawaii Kai Golf Course, with plans for the first two homes to be shipped to Honolulu by June.

The homes will be shipped on a boat to Honolulu, having already been built in a factory in Vietnam — but for future developments, the factory-built homes could be produced locally in Kapolei.

The luxury-home project, called The Villas on the 8th, is being developed by KVGE LLC, a subsidiary of Ohana Control Systems Inc, which is the general contractor for the development.

Both companies are owned by Amir Borochov, president of Ohana Control Systems, who has plans for a union factory in Kapolei that would employ 400 skilled workers to produce and deliver, at full capacity, roughly 400 factory-built homes each year — or 40 homes each month for Hawaii residents.

“At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is to have a factory create jobs and do it all here. Housing is the biggest need, not only in Hawaii. It’s easy to deliver houses. It’s hard to deliver quality, and I’m looking to do that — deliver quality.”

– Amir Borochov, President, Ohana Control Systems

The Villas on the 8th are currently in the permitting process. Borochov expects the remaining 12 homes to be finished by October or November — at least 10 months after the permits are approved. That same timeline would typically apply to just a single home being built on-site in Hawaii.

What takes longer than construction in Hawaii is the permitting process, which can take 12–18 months before breaking ground on a home. However, with factory-built homes, once a plan is approved, the home can be replicated and placed in other areas across the Islands without going through the permitting process again.

There are two floor plans for The Villas on the 8th, all of which will be two-story, single-family homes with a garage and covered lanai. Eleven homes will have just over 2,700 square feet of interior space with four bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms, and the remaining three homes will have just under 2,600 square feet with four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms.

Four units are already under contract through pre-sales, with Dolores Panlilio Bediones and Amanda Panlilio Bediones of Coldwell Banker Realty serving as the selling agents for the development. Per state and county affordable housing requirements for all developments in Hawaii, one of the units will be sold as affordable. Prices for the other 13 market-rate homes start at $2.5 million.

The homes are built with steel framing, drywall, and fiberglass insulation. They will also be energy efficient and equipped with Tesla chargers. The design is modern — modeled more like luxury homes in Beverly Hills than traditional “Old Hawaii”-style homes.

A common misconception about factory-built — otherwise known as modular — homes is that they are mobile and cheap rather than permanent and high-quality. The factory-built homes Ohana Control Systems has planned are built and installed to stay in place permanently.

“The building itself is so heavy that no tsunami or hurricane will ever move it. These houses will outlive us, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren. They are made to last forever — and that’s the misconception. There are different kinds of factory-built.”

– Amir Borochov, President, Ohana Control Systems

Originally published in Pacific Business News, February 24, 2026. Read the original article.